Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 93

If he had a weakness, it was for thinking that all his life he had taken medicine boldly, and so now, when Michael dodged the spoon in Nana’s mouth, he had said reprovingly, “Be a man, Michael.”

Who acts: doubt, weakness, Michael · What happens: have, think, take, dodge, say, be · To what, where: weakness, life, spoon, mouth, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, weakness, Michael), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thinking	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 weakness	det
5	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thinking	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thinking	aux
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 thinking	mark
10	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 taken	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 life	det:predet
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taken	nsubj:pass
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taken	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taken	aux
17	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thinking	ccomp
18	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taken	obj
19	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 taken	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 now	advmod
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 said	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dodged	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 dodged	advmod
26	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 dodged	nsubj
27	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 spoon	det
29	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dodged	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 mouth	case
31	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 mouth	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Nana	case
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dodged	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dodged	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	aux
37	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 taken	conj
38	reprovingly	reprovingly	ADV	_	37 said	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 man	punct
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 man	punct
41	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 man	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 man	det
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Michael	punct
45	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 man	appos
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thinking	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	doubt	a weakness				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weakness=Patient
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	weakness					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	take	past · perfect · passive		doubt's life			boldly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme medicine=Destination
4	dodge	past	Michael	the spoon	Nana's mouth			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent spoon=Location
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect	doubt			now	reprovingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is a in a quote	infinitive		a man				tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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